At this week’s Television Critics Association press tour, Heinberg told reporters season two of the series will ditch the procedural element:

The case work … was really challenging. We were finding out what the show was as we went. I owed the network and audience a ‘case of the week’ every week, and they were hard to break and took up an enormous amount of real estate in the script.”

He later added that the new season will also be more comedic:

We embraced the show as a comedy — we looked at season one and saw that it’s really a romantic comedy at its heart. … We want you to come on board at any time. Once you see the fun we’re having and how sexy and playful the show is, it really is a romp and a lot of fun and very different from Grey’s and Scandal and it’ll hook you. Watch and you’ll have a good time.”

It doesn’t matter what it is. If the show can’t average over a 1.2, it should be cancelled. I’m going to give it a renewal shot with a 1.0 CASTLE without Stana Katic and Tamala Jones would still be a better show than this, and it was cancelled. Don’t suck up to Shondra, ABC. You did that last season.